I have certain reminiscences of the con that she had no access to, like seeing a poker game in which 13-year-old Dave Ish sat in manfully with the likes of Tucker and the original Marty Greenberg and did pretty well. Or the scenes in the suite that Harlan and I rented and subleased dormitory style to about fifty other fans at $5 a night. But this is Juanita's piece, not mine, and she remembers the parts of the con she experienced, which is as it should be.

I do think she's left a couple of the Hugo winners out: without going over to the office to check, I offer the recollection that Ackerman received a Hugo as Number One Fan Face, and Bester for The Demolished Man. The Hugos were little scraggly home-made things: I remember from my visits to John Campbell's office how pitiful his 1953 Hugo looked alongside the ones he won later.